Years of Watching General Mark Milley Finally Make Sense – The Chairman of The Joint Chiefs is a Political Operative

By Sundance via TheConservativeTreehouse

A statement made by Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley defending the teaching Critical Race Theory to West Point cadets has gained some attention.  However, the comments Milley made today actually reconcile several years of CTH watching Milley operate and having puzzling questions.

Remember, General Milley did some really odd things as Joint Chiefs Chairman under President Trump:

(1) Milley never removed Lt. Col Alexander Vindman from his White House post after the underling compromised his leadership position.  The pentagon left Vindman on assignment to the NSC even after Vindman attempted to take-down President Trump.

(2) Milley was then slow to react to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer threatening President Trump; attempting to extort him into inaction over the disciplinary plans against the SEAL commando, Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher.  And perhaps worst of all…

(3) Joint Chief Chairman Milley, SoS Mike Pompeo traveled to Mar-a-Lago in December 2019, where they were informed President Trump of military strikes in Syria and Iraq *after* they took place. [Background Here] [Background Here].  President Trump made Esper, Milley and Pompeo hold a press conference without Trump supporting them; then President Trump remained silent on the issue for days.

It seemed like CTH was alone noticing the issues with the Pentagon and suspicions of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley.  However, a few days after the Mar-a-Lago incident Col Douglas Macgregor expressed his own suspicions about the U.S. military attack in Iraq and Syria that paralleled our gut reaction. Macgregor stated his believed President Trump was being intentionally and “skillfully, misinformed”.

There was a valid reason for suspicion around General Milley and the entire Pentagon apparatus.

Factually, President Trump’s strategic approach toward foreign threats and foreign intervention (through the use of geopolitical economic pressure) was a major paradigm shift that removed the Defense Department from a primary role and placed them back into a more appropriate ‘contingency’ role, when it came to foreign policy and national security.

It was obvious from the outset of the Trump administration the Pentagon did not like that position.

Before explaining more, let us watch General Milley today outline his worldview on internal domestic politics.  Note how Milley connects the teaching of Critical Race Theory to his view that people attempted to “assault” the DC Capitol and “overturn the constitution of the United States“.  Watch this carefully because in many ways he is saying the quiet thing out loud:

In the big picture it was not difficult to figure out why the Pentagon would be opposed to Trump. During the Trump campaign and early administration President Trump’s expressed foreign policy was viewed by NATO alliance members as a threat.  President Trump dared to tell them their “cold war mentality” was outdated.  Heck, the NATO members were simultaneously purchasing energy from Russia at the same time they were demanding the U.S. military protect them from any Russian aggression.

The same type of common sense perspective that startled the NATO alliance members applied internally to the U.S. military.

President Trump’s preferred use of economic warfare made the Pentagon’s role diminished. Instead of punching North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, President Trump hit the checkbook of Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping (tariffs etc.) and then opened diplomatic discussions with the DPRK Chairman.  Toward the threat from North Korea the primary military response became the contingency plan; President Trump engaged in economic leverage, not military…. and it worked.

As a consequence the value of James Mattis was replaced by the effectiveness of U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. Joint Chief’s Milley was not in the primary planning room; Milley was replaced by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (until he’s needed).

In the Trump era the President was telling the Pentagon where and when to position; and then asked them for ‘contingency’ preparation. Decades of Pentagon-centric foreign policy was lessened by an entirely new geopolitical approach based on an economic strategy.  This was, in essence, the Trump Doctrine.

Take away power, or worse yet, stop using military power, and the leaders within the system start to sense their institution becoming functionally obsolescent. Overlay this military fear with pre-existing ideological differences and the situation gets worse.

Unfortunately, like all other issues in the era of hyper-polarization, normally liberal democrats would be alarmed about military leadership going rogue with their own agenda.  However, as long as that agenda was anti-Trump, the political-left with a totalitarian outlook are now okay with it.

In 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden was openly asking the U.S. military to initiate a coup against President Trump. The corporate media didn’t bat an eyelash… The traditional checks-and-balances, things that normally keep us stable, started getting very sketchy within the military; this has only gotten worse in the past year.

Remember,… the impeachment effort was only a “soft-coup” until the uniformed military showed up.  Yet these same Pentagon leaders have the nerve now to call a protest in DC, likely manipulated by the FBI, an insurrection “intended to overturn the constitution of the United States of America.”   The one thing these leftist ideologues are good at is projection.

“Tell me again how we should “back the blue”, as we watch parents arrested at school board meetings. Tell me again that most FBI agents are good & legitimate, while we watch 15 agents investigate a garage pull-down cord while ‘known wolfes’ roam free.  Tell me again.  Please, keep telling me…. and when the order comes down to go door to door to collect citizens’ firearms, or to arrest citizens for wrong thoughts, our local police and military will follow orders”… and I will say “tell me again”, in handcuffs.

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Jai Seli
Jai Seli

DUH – nominated by the Obiden puppeteers and confirmed by the Senate legisTRAITORS. Career gov-agent parasite now exposed as a cowering black-dick-sucker also!

Stucky

This fuktard General needs to be a causality of Friendly Fire.

Military leaders in Russia and China are laughing their asses off at what our military is becoming. Not kidding. If ass-fuckers like this POS keep getting positions of power, China might decide to invade the USA!USA!USA! by Septemberteenth.

Ken32
Ken32

Anyone in the military in the last 30 years or more could tell you that stars only go to those with the right politics and savvy. They don’t go to honest men.

Mygirl....maybe

He’s queer….
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Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

That rack of fruit salad is so… fruity. Kisses.

nkit
nkit

Everyone knows that fags and trannies aren’t decent fighting soldiers, silly Milley.

Glock-N-Load

Septemberteemfff

FIFY

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

Our military is right up there being compared to that of Italy around 1942.

musket
musket

Seriously? Any one in the rank of full Colonel or higher inside the nation crapitol region is a politician…..Got it….

Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

O the secrets kept in the basement of the Pentagram.
Auntie feels like swooning.

Ken32
Ken32

The reason it looks like this rhetoric is so strained is because Trump has to be complicit for it to make any kind of sense, but CTH is too wedded to their own narrative. It was good as a counter narrative, but it proved to be just as false as the official one.

Jon
Jon

I can’t help but feeling like the wolf is at the door!

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

I cannot believe anyone would think a general/admiral was anything other than a political animal. Most bird Colonel’s are, as well.

Stangdog
Stangdog

Yup, to make O-6 you have to blow someone and get a lobotomy, I’ve rarely met an O-6 or above that wasn’t a sleaze ball

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

I have known a few O6 pilots who were OK, but they stayed in the cockpit and refused desk jobs. My nephew was offered a pentagon job with a shot at a star and he told them he would give up his 15 year career rather than fly a desk. He made O6, put in his 20 and retired.

Arthur
Arthur

The constitution he says. That document has been null and void since 1861.

DWEEZIL THE WEASEL
DWEEZIL THE WEASEL

Meh. I remember a mantra from my short stay at Benning’s School For Boys in 1970: “Cooperate and graduate.” Nothing transcends politics, ladies and gentlemen. Plan accordingly.

nkit
nkit

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clayusmcret
clayusmcret

Milley has been a disgrace to his uniform for quite a while. He’ll do well under Biden*.

Foot in the Forest
Foot in the Forest

I won’t be wearing hand cuffs.

falconflight
falconflight

Of course ‘they’ will turn their guns on us.

rhs jr
rhs jr

Can’t be much worse than the Sec of Defense Gen Austin (Ret) who is a nothing burger academically and militarilly who got greased to the top because of his skin color; he is evidently a civilian who struts around in a generals uniform like some African king in my opinion. He is doing more damage to the US Military than Russia or China could. Watch Bro Nathanael at Brighteon.com “Defense Chief Touts Pride Filth”. Both Traitors need to be Court Martialed.

KJ
KJ

CTH: great blog, mentally retarded moderator and cult-like brainwashed commentariat. It’s really a shame.

KaD
KaD

https://national-justice.com/lawless-america-george-soros-funded-prosecutor-drops-charges-against-two-involved-austin-mass

https://cleverjourneys.wordpress.com/2021/03/04/lin-wood-whistleblower-interview-danger-in-supreme-court/?preview=true

AL Tru
AL Tru

Biden does not have the nuclear football codes.
Why is General Mike Flynn’s brother in charge of the Pacific Fleet ?

Insurrection Act of 1807
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Insurrection Act of 1807

Signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson on March 3, 1807
Major amendments
1871, 2006, 2007
The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law[1] that empowers the President of the United States to deploy U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States in particular circumstances, such as to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or rebellion.
The act provides a “statutory exception” to the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which limits the use of military personnel under federal command for law enforcement purposes within the United States.[2][3]
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Before invoking the powers under the Act, 10 U.S.C. § 254 requires the President to first publish a proclamation ordering the insurgents to disperse. As part of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, these provisions are now codified as amended.
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There are Constitutional exceptions to Posse Comitatus restrictions rooted in the President’s own constitutional authority. Defense Department guidelines describe “homeland defense” as a “constitutional exception” to Posse Comitatus restriction, meaning that measures necessary to guarantee National Security from external threats are not subject to the same limitations.”

Remember when Trump said ” I have powers that people don’t even know about ” ?

Anybody seen Gina Haspel ?

Joe Blow
Joe Blow

No Sir.
When they come to the door to collect the guns, many of them will meet their maker.

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